You wait ages for an interesting legal costs decision from the Court of Appeal and then two come along together.Both cases concerned a similar issue as to the extent of a costs judge’s discretion to limit costs in a manner that appears to go beyond a strict reading of the final costs order.In Drew v ...

The Supreme Court has refused permission to appeal in Birmingham City Council v Qasim et al (our notes on the Court of Appeal and county court decisions are here and here, respectively). As our friends at the UKSC blog previously noted, it would be helpful if the Supreme Court would publish such inf ...

As she walked toward the supervisor's office, Tyson Foods employee Gwendolyn Miles says she slipped on a wet floor and fell. Miles claims a leak in the roof caused the floor to become a hazardous condition. Miles filed a personal injury lawsuit against Tyson Foods Inc. on Feb. 2 in the Marshall Div ...

As a follow up to yesterday's blog entry about U.S. News & World Report's rankings of nursing homes is another article from U.S. News about Special Focus Facilities (SFF).  Among the 15,547 nursing homes in the full set of U.S. News rankings, 131 are tagged as "Special-Focus Facilities ...

Last week, President Obama formally unveiled his proposed budget for the 2011 fiscal year, which starts in October. Early reports indicated that the Obama administration would propose a freeze on discretionary spending for all government programs, with the exception of...

L’Accord commercial anti-contrefaçon (ACAC), objet de négociations secrètes, est aujourd’hui au centre des débats internationaux sur le droit d’auteur. Tel est aussi le cas d’un potentiel nouveau traité international sur l’accès pour les déficients visuels aux livres en ligne, qui s’inscrit dans le ...

In my previous post I pointed to an excellent analysis of liberal condescension and gave a couple of examples of it (and discussed a fabulous example of it here). This condescension, as many others have pointed out, is in large part a product of liberals’ faith in their superior morality and their s ...

According to a study published in The British Journal of Psychiatry a diet that consists of consuming processed “junk” food may trigger or contribute to depression. Reporting on the study, an MSNBC News article explains: ... two dietary patterns were...

Normal 0 0 1 958 5463 45 10 6708 11.1282 0 0 0 Ballard Nursing Center is yet another large nursing home facility located in Des Plaines, Illinois. Ballard can accomedate 231 Medicare / Medicaid pati ...

Voir SEB (T-Fal) v. Montgomery Ward & Co. (Fed. Cir. 2010) Et le commentaire de Patently-o